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Iranian authorities person opened a transgression lawsuit against the organisers of a marathon connected Kish island, the judiciary said, aft images emerged of women competing without hijab.
More than 5,000 radical took portion successful Friday's (December 5, 2025) race, according to section media, with images online showing a fig of runners who were not pursuing the Islamic Republic’s strict formal codification for women, which was enshrined successful instrumentality successful the aboriginal 1980s.
"Despite erstwhile warnings regarding the request to comply with the country's existent laws and regulations, arsenic good arsenic religious, customary, and nonrecreational principles... the lawsuit was held successful a mode that violated nationalist decency," the section authoritative was quoted arsenic saying successful the judiciary's authoritative quality outlet, Mizan Online.
"Considering the violations that occurred and based connected the laws and regulations, a transgression lawsuit has been filed against the officials and agents organising this event."
Conservative-aligned outlets including Tasnim and Fars had earlier condemned the marathon arsenic indecent and disrespectful to Islamic laws enforced aft the 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed shah.
Women successful Iran are required to screen their hairsbreadth and deterioration modest, loose-fitting covering successful public.
But adherence to the hijab rules has go much sporadic since the 2022 protests that followed the death successful custody of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman arrested implicit an alleged dress-code breach.
Earlier this week, a bulk of lawmakers accused the judiciary of failing to uphold the hijab law. Chief Justice Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei aboriginal called for stricter enforcement.
Iran's authorities nether President Masoud Pezeshkian has refused to ratify a Bill passed by the parliament that would person imposed pugnacious penalties for women who bash not observe the formal code.In May 2023, the caput of Iran's athletics federation resigned aft women without headscarves took portion successful a sporting lawsuit successful the confederate metropolis of Shiraz.
